Well we have brought the IT Director into the 21st century (screaming and kicking as it may be) and he is now on IM. He has now task us with finding Android and Windows based clients that will "sync" the conversations.

We are mostly using Digsby on the Windows machines, and some of the IT staff use IM+ on our Android devices. The problem is that when you leave your desk you don't get IM's on your phone unless you disconnect from Digsby. And when you are on your phone and return to your desk they won't show up on the desktop until you disconnect from IM+ (phone).

So if you know of a program (or programs) that will allow IM's to show up at both locations at the same time that would be great.

I use google talk. It's pre-loaded on many Android phones and there's a great desktop application that even works with voice/video integration. In my opinion, using another app, or set of apps, is just duplicating effort for something that's already native to the mobile platform (android). In addition, you can use the web interface for gtalk and there are widgets so you could even plug it in to your Spiceworks user portal.

I use trillian on my android phone, android tablet, ipad and 3 Windows computers and it keeps it up to date on all of them. I did purchase the pro version to make sure the history is synced to the web also.

1. Unfortunately as far as I know Google talk will not support Yahoo or MSN.

2. We looked at Trillian but would have to have the pro version to do Google and we are not looking for any new reoccurring cost and it would be a rather large cost for our dept . (from what I can find on their web site it is now a subscription based service)

3. I was able to have (sync) both IM's going on my Samsung Galaxy and my Digsby but dont know what program was loaded on the Galaxy.